Buckle.



PATENTED JAN. 13

F. BARR.

BUCKLE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNI: 1o, 1902.

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UNITED dramas Fries.

ATRNT BUCKLE.

sPRcIFIeATIoiv frming 'part ef Letters Patent No. 718,240,7dated 'January 1s, 1903.

Application filed June 10| 1902.

..0 all L11/1,0m t may concern:

Be it known-that I, FREDERIC BARR, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of NewYork, have invented a new and Improved Buckle, of `which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to what are known as. lever-buckles for holding belts or straps made ot' any iiexible material used for belts or straps in which the belt or strap is secured without injury to the belt or strap, and it can be quickly and easily operated. InV these 4buckles there is usually combined with the buckle-frame a hinged lever or clamp to hold by friction the free end of the belt or strap between the end of the lever and the buckleframe. Y

My invention relates to what is known as a double-end buckle, doingaway with fastening the belt or strap'to the buckle permanently, the winged levers.or clamps, which are made of metal, having double rabbeted edges for its clamping portion and a spring set in end of the winged levers held in place by the pivot-pin that holds the winged levers. The belt or strap is easily adjusted by drawing the free end of the belt or strap through the buckle. The spring in the end of the winged levers sets them at once and prevents it from being released until the winged lever is raised.

Figure l represents a View in perspective of a buckle made in accordance with my invention, showing it with belt attached; Fig. 2, a perspective view of said buckle closed and showing by dotted lines the pivot-pin which holds the Winged levers and spring in place. Fig. 3 is a rear View of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal central section of Fig. 2, showing winged levers closed and open and spring in position.

The frame of the buckle consists of upper and lower members 11, whichincline upward from a central point, and parallel side members 12, and at the inner edge of each side member 12, at the front faces of said member, a longitudinal rabbet 13 is produced.

In the further construction of the buckleframe a central transversely-located guideloop 14 is formed offset from the front face of semi No. 111.077. (No man.)

the frame, which loop is provided at ornear its upper end with a transverseopening 15, s o thatthe ends offthe thin belt material may be lquickly and conveniently passed in a cross position beneath the guide-loop 14 at the front ofthe buckle, as is shown in Fig. l, as the edges of the body'material A may be simply slipped through the said slot or opening 15. VInthe further construction of the buckle a pintle or'pivot-pin 1b' is passed through the* top and bottom member of the frame back of the guide-loop`14, and the major construction of the frame is completed by addition of the locking-wings B, located in the spacezbetween the side members 12 of the bucklefra"me, and the pivot-pin'l being held to turn upon the latter through knuckles 17, arranged to interlock and through which the pivot-pin passes, as is shown in Fig. 2. In the rear-surface of the outer end of each locking-wing B a rabbet 18 is produced, and in the closed position of the wings the rabbeted surfaces of the wings t snugly to the rabbeted surfaces of the buckle-frame and in such manner that the opposing edges of said part are flush at the back of the buckle and constitute gripping edges for the body material A of the belt, iwhichjis passedbetween said edges from the back forwardly to be crossed beneath the guide-loop 14, as is shown in Fig. 1. The locking-wings B are held in their closed position by a spring 19, coiled around the pivotpin 16 and having its end secured to the locking-wings with the tension rearwardly applied. Under such a construction of buckle any strip of velvet or the thinnest ribbon fabric may be quickly and conveniently laced through the buckle and be held rmly and against displacement around the Waist of the wearer. c

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As an improved article of manufacture a buckle consisting of a frame, having-its top and bottom members inclined-upwardly and' outwardly7 in ,oppositedilectious from a c en-v tral point and having the inner edges Vof its side members rabbeted at the front anda central transverse offset guide-loop connecting the top and bottom members and provided with a transverse slot, a pivot-pin in frame at the rear of the guide-loop and spring-con- IOO trolled Wings mounted upon the pivot-pin and have signed my name to this speoicaton, in having theil` outer end rabbeted at the back the presence oftwo subscribing Witnesses, this to t in the rabbeted portion of the frame 13th day of May, 1902. and the outer ends of the Wings being ush 5 Rt the back of the frame, when the Wings are Witnesses:

closed. WILLIAM F. SI-IERIDAN,

In testimony whereof I, FREDERIC BARR, l TROS. A. MULLIGAN.

FREDERIC BARR. 

